SELECTED WORKS

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TELEVISION

Holby City As Alphonso Decker (Directed by Daikin Marsh)
Shockingly pulling off the role of a slightly odd science fiction fan – how was that possible? With Amanda Mealing, Patsy Kensit, Ken Bones (Christmas episode, guest lead).

Casualty 1907

As Dr Leonard Hill (Directed by Bryn Higgins)
An eccentric boffin, dressed in Edwardian clothes, with his own special capsule. Could it be …! Close, but no cigar, but a good part in this well made BBC costume drama. With William Houston.

The Royal Today As James Harrison (Directed by Neil Adams)
Casualty 1907 ? The Royal Today ? What is it about dramas with a medical title and a time travelling theme ? All we need now’s Emergency Ward 1066 for a hat-trick. With Caroline Carver, Anna Hornsby, Ben Hull, Leah Bracknell.

Phoenix Nights As Comic # 1 (Directed by Jonny Campbell)
Chameleon-like versatility – playing the role of a crap stand-up comedian. With Peter Kay et al.

Coronation Street As Vicar, Doctor and Chris Baxter (Directed by Jim Loach, David Kessler and Tim O’Mara)
Three roles – as a vicar with a terrible haircut (at Curly’s wedding), yet another Doctor, and a solicitor with an ill fitting suit. Oh the glamour.

The Forsyte Saga As George Liversedge (Directed by Christopher Menaul)
There wouldn’t have been a saga at all if George hadn’t introduced Soames (Damian Lewis) to Irene (Gina McKee).

A & E As David (Directed by Christopher King)
Playing a well meaning simpleton (that was a stretch!).

Titanic: Birth Of a Legend As Greaves (Directed by William Lyons)
Playing an American journalist who had most of his lines spoken over by evil narrator Charles Dance.

Shameless As Manager (Directed by Catherine Morshead)
Anyone who blinked may have missed this.

Crimewatch As Scouse Robber (Directed by Adam English)
Anyone who watched this should have blinked. And covered their ears. The robbers were never caught, and acting is probably to blame.

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THEATRE

The Talented Mr Ripley Dukes Theatre, Lancaster , October-November 2004

As Freddie Miles and Marc Priminger (Directed by Ian Hastings) With Peter Prentice, Piers Ronan, Elizabeth Jasicki.

“Toby Hadoke as Freddie Miles brings a natural strength to the stage – and a natural stagecraft that gives an underpinning realism to the production at this critical turning point.” – Virtual Lancaster

“Director Ian Hastings certainly knows his actors when it comes to casting. No fault can be found with the characterisation of Toby Hadoke as Marc Priminger and Freddie Miles.” – Morning Star

Sherlock Holmes In Trouble Royal Exchange Theatre – 2nd July – 9th August 2003
As Copper, Captain, EmCee and loads of other parts (Directed by Emil Wolk)
Self-written characters in a semi-improvised comedy piece with Lloyd Hutchinson and Jason Watkins.

“The show is stolen from under them by Toby Hadoke in a variety of inspired comic guises. Give this man a lead role, pronto” – City Life*

“Toby Hadoke gets plenty of laughs in a multitude of scene stealing roles” – Whatsonstage

“I laughed at several incidents – the tipsy captain of airship Th’Indenberg, the sleazy compere at a Las Vegas nightclub (both played by Toby Hadoke)” – The Times

“There are comical performances from Simon Startin as Lestrade and Toby Hadoke in a myriad of roles as a jobbing actor who comments on the silliness of the anarchic situations” – The Stage

Two Chorlton Arts Festival and tour – early 2003 As The Landlord and all male roles (Directed by Susan MacLeod)
“Toby Hadoke as the Landlord showed real, heart tugging emotion in this final scene” – The Stage

A Midsummer Nights’ Dream Royal Exchange Theatre – 6th March -20th April 2002 As Snout (Directed by Lucy Bailey)

Favourite job to date, with Fenella Woolgar, Tom Hodgkins, Robin Laing, Francis Magee, Hilary McLean, Madeleine Worral.

“Every mechanical has his day, particularly Toby Hadoke as Snout who brings the house down in Act V.” – Times Literary Supplement

“The excellent Toby Hadoke, (who plays Snout) as a WWF Hell’s Angel.” – City Life

“It has style in its depiction of Tom Snout as a Hell’s Angel with a bicycle.” – The Guardian

“A special mention to Robin Laing, Jonathan Bond, Madelaine Worrall, Francis Magee, Toby Hadoke, Trevor Dwyer-Lynch, and Chris Jackson, whose performances were natural, exciting, comical and talented.” – Manchester Evening News

Accidental Death Of An Anarchist Edinburgh Fringe and tour 1996
As The Maniac (Directed by Chris Sudworth)
Also adapted the script in this sell out fringe success. With Matt Addis, Colm Gormley, Joseph Monk, Julia Maria Martino and Suzy Madigan.

“Hadoke works in a liberal sprinkling of contemporary British references, plus some cheerfully manic byplay with Masonic handhakes and the like. His elaborately wrought dialogue contains some unexpected – but very effective – Wodehousian echoes, delivered with assured fluency. A brisk, peppy production and mischievously enjoyable hour.” – The Scotsman

“This slick show has been a stalwart of theatre companies in Edinburgh over the years, but this is one of the best I can recall. The plot, based on real life events 20 years ago, concerns a young railway worker and anarchist who fell – or was pushed – from a police interrogation room four floors to his death. A maniac, superbly played by Toby Hadoke, passes himself off as an official investigator who carries out an interrogation of the police themselves. Hadoke has adapted the script and, as is the tradition with this play, updated it with timely references to the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad and other topical material. Hadoke is ably supported by a terrific cast including Matthew J Addis as Bertozzo and Colm Gormley as the corrupt inspector. It is a testimony to the players and adaptation that this play is as relevant today as it was when it was first performed” – Andrew Hoyle, The Daily Express

The Merchant Of Venice Ludlow Festival, 1990
As Leonardo and Man From Antonio (Directed by Michael Napier-Brown)
Professional theatre debut, with James Ellis, Doran Godwin, Dale Rapley, Robert Ashby, Kim Wall and Eric Carte.

Other Theatre Roles include

Loot, Royal Exchange Theatre (as Pc Meadows, directed by Braham Murray)
With Derek Griffiths, Gabrielle Drake, Colin Prockter and Robin Laing.

Genoveva, Opera North (as Angelo, directed by David Pountney)
As a mute. In an opera. (rather like playing a eunuch in a porn film). With Patricia Schuman, Keith Latham, Christopher Purves, Paul Nilon.

Roast – two seasons of comedy plays, The Green Room (as Phil Broom, Diavolo and others, written and directed by Adam Riches).

And at the Royal Exchange Studio, Fire Salad and Doorway (both by Tony Burgess and directed by Andy Farrell) and Bus Stop (with David Yip).

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RADIO

Elidor, BBC Radio 4 Extra, 2011 As King Malebron (Directed by Charlotte Riches)
Spooky adaptation by Don Webb of Alan Garner’s classic children’s fantasy, with Fiona Clarke from “Dalek I Love You” (so it was like a Doctor Who Radio Spin Offs mini convention).

Cyberman 2, Big Finish, 2010 As Captain Louis Richter (Directed by Nicholas Briggs)
Here is a podcast with discussing the CD (about halfway down the page).

Therese Raquin, BBC Radio 4, 2009 As Camille (Directed by Pauline Harris)
As a dull consumptive husband who returns to haunt his murderous sife, with Charlotte Riley and Andrew Buchan.

Writing The Century, BBC Radio 4, 2008 As Leslie (Directed by Stefan Escreet)
Lead role in a five part serial based on real events, with Georgia King, Malcolm Raeburn, Maggie Fox, Janice McKenzie.

Dead Souls, BBC Radio 4 April, 2006 As Nozdryov and Tentetnikov (Directed by Polly Thomas)
Two very funny parts (comedy twit and stupid braggart) in Dan Rebellato’s brilliant adaptation of Gogol’s classic, with Michael Palin and Mark Heap.

Other Radio credits include 1834 (written by Jim Poyser) as a comedy luddite (northern) and a comedy highwayman (cockney – ooh, the range of this man), A Child In Time (with Jamie Glover and Zara Turner) as a politician who starts behaving like an eight year old boy, The Glass Bead Game (with Sir Derek Jacobi), as an eccentric mathematician, and as a duped American businessman in The Saturday Play: Fraud (with Philip Glenister and Angela Wynter), all on Radio 4.

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VOICE OVERS

Narration for TV programmes, corporate videos and DVDs, character voices and straight reads for commercials, dubbing for foreign TV and movies, and voices for computer games (trolls especially good, apparently, and prominent as Professor Quirrel, Barty Crouch Junior, Gilderoy Lockhart and Vernon Dursley for the Lego Harry Potter Game).

Voice demo and agent visit: www.thevoiceovergallery.co.uk

Selected short story readings online: Do Not Read This Story (co-narrated by The Castellan himself, Paul Jerricho!) A Foreign Perspective The Lively Writers Group The Great Car Boot Heist